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Globalization is the situation of international integration. It arises from the exchange of world-views, ideas, products, and other cultural aspects. Other contributing factors have been advances in transportation, telecommunications infrastructure, the internet, and the mobile phones. They have generated the interdependence of economic and national activities. There is an argument on the origin of the process. Some scholars link it to the modern times. However, some insist that it existed before the Age of Discovery and the New World voyages.
Others trace it to the third millennium BCE. Globalization as a large-scale process started in the 19th century. Therefore, the connectedness of the world's cultures and economies grew quickly. The concept came from the intersection of interrelated sets of practices. They included journalists, academics, publishers/editors, and librarians. The IMF in 2000 identified four aspects of the phenomenon.
They were trade and transactions, investments and capital, migration and movement of people and the knowledge dissemination (Almqvist, 2002). The environmental challenges like air and water pollution, global warming, and overfishing of the ocean were also factors. Globalization affects work and business organizations, social-cultural resources, and the environment. For thousands of year, humans interacted over long distances.
The Silk Road connected Africa, Asia, and Europe. It was an example of the transformative power that existed in the Old World. The nations also exchanged the arts, languages, religion, philosophy, and other aspects of culture, across the states. The exploration of the oceans also helped (Curtis, 2009).
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